[K12OSN] Linux cut off
Rob Owens
robowens at myway.com
Sat Nov 20 01:32:48 UTC 2004
Photoshop and Autocad 14 are both listed on this website which gives pretty specific instructions for getting programs to work under wine. http://www.frankscorner.org/
Check it out and let me know if you have any luck. I'm trying Autocad 14 right now, but I haven't gotten it to work right yet. I'm getting errors saying that my dll's are incompatible with each other (and they are native dll's that I took off of an old copy of win98).
-Rob
--- On Fri 11/19, Henry Hartley < henryhartley at westat.com > wrote:
From: Henry Hartley [mailto: henryhartley at westat.com]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:34:59 -0500
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Linux cut off
>> -----Original Message-----<br>>> From: "Terrell Prudé, Jr."<br>>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:13 PM<br>>> <br>>> Gladly. The jobs that I have to accomplish are as follows:<br>>> 1.) MS Exchange email.<br>>> 2.) Web browsing.<br>>> 3.) Office automation.<br>>> 4.) Router/firewall management<br>>> 5.) Accessing Windows shares: smbmount<br><br>The one thing I go back to Windows (dual boot) on a regular basis for is<br>Photoshop. I'm using a relatively old version 5.5 and I still don't find<br>GIMP as capable. Don't get me wrong, GIMP is great and it has come a long<br>way. I use it when I can. But when I'm doing serious work with lots of<br>layers (particularly text layers), it just isn't as good. I don't find the<br>UI as easy, either, although I'm sure at least some of that is just a<br>training/practice issue. The scanner I use isn't supported by SANE but the<br>next one I own will be.<br><br>I have an old-ish version of AutoCAD (14) that I would have a!
hard time<br>leaving, also. It's been a while since I looked for open source CAD but a<br>few years ago, anyway, there wasn't much to brag about. There are<br>commercial packages that run on Linux/Unix. So, if I ever decide to pay for<br>an upgrade, I'll look long and hard at Linux capable alternatives. But as<br>far as I know, there's nothing close to AutoCAD in the OS world.<br><br>Also, my daughter has Windows-based games and she boots back to Windows for<br>them. For all I know they will run under WINE but I've not tried.<br><br>But I DO NOT use Microsoft Office or IE. Even on the Windows boot, I use<br>OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird. My wife complained for a while and<br>still, when she helps someone out with an MS Access project, the lack of<br>that has caused some friction. But for the most part, for web-browsing,<br>mail-reading, and paper-writing, there is absolutely no need to run Windows.<br><br>Oh, and for my taxes, I go to http://www.taxactonline.!
com/ and do it in<br>Firefox. Not free but not very expensiv!
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r.<br><br>-- <br>Henry<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>
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